--Microsoft leading the software
developers pack with bloated, proprietary coded data files when a simple,
flat ASCII files would have done just as nice (i.e.
HTML)

--and just my general reaction
towards proprietary software and away from an open, computing
community.

However, all of us in computing know, you
rant-n-rave for a few
minutes and then adapt. So over time my original
"Flat FIle
Society" Homepage (circa 1996 on a defunct free web site
) has changed from advocacy for
open computing standards and text data files where
reasonableto just an
organizer page of my own
personal web pages and post-graduate
projects..